Buying advertising online is certainly a pretty guaranteed way to build up not only traffic on the Internet, but also your brand. And many times, building brand awareness is every bit as valuable as building raw traffic numbers to your website. If you’re going to explore the area of advertising, though, you need to be aware of some basic terms. This is...

It is the goal of anyone seeking to make money on the Internet to find a good market. Some markets are better than others. Some markets have people who are more willing to buy things than others. Some markets have more demand than others. The goal is to find a market which has enough demand and enough of a space for you to make a niche of your own and make an...

7-Zip is a file archiving application. Remember WinZIP or PKZIP? Think of 7-Zip like that. This app is not pretty but it sure is easy. In fact, it’s so easy that it sometimes confuses people. When you install it, all you have to do to create a ZIP or 7z file is just right-click a file, a selection of files or a folder, choose 7-Zip from the context menu...

Any method of making money online requires traffic. You need to have traffic. The more traffic that you have to your website, the larger will be your ability to make money online. So, the question is: how do you get traffic? And that is the age-old question. Several of the past days in this series have touched on various ways to do it. People are devising new,...

Inevitably you’re going to come across some web sites that still (for whatever reason) insist on delivering video content in QuickTime and not Flash. And of course at that point you have to download QuickTime via QuickTime.com. Mac users never have a problem with QuickTime because it works superb with MacOS. However as many people are aware, Apple doesn’t...

If you are running a business on the Internet (even if your business is offline but you have an online presence) and you do not have a mailing list, you are throwing money away. Clear enough for you? When a person arrives on your website, it is probably because that person was/is interested in what you’re doing. They’re looking for an answer....

We touched on this subject back on Day 8 of this series. No matter what business you are in or how you want to pursue profits from the Internet, everything hinges on finding a good market to cater to. You can, of course, cater to multiple markets at the same time using different parts of your business, but you have to find a group of people with a particular...

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